Window frame and sash.



' v PATENTED 113.26, 1907.

a A. J," GOBEIL. WINDOW FRAME AND SASH.

APPLICATION IILED SEPT. 29, 1905.

A TTORA'E xi PATENTBD FEB. 26, 1907,

A. J. GOBBIL. WINDOW FRAME AND SASH.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 29, 1905.

2 SHEETS- SHEET- 2.

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ATTORNEY.

WITNESSES lJlllClE w C0,, OF DULULH, MINNESOTA.

ADELARD J. GOBLIL, OF DULUTH, MINNES'CTA, ASSIGNOR 6F ONE-s I 1 FURY M. DEETZ AND EDWARD W. DEE Z, COPARTI ERS its. season Specification of Letters Patent.

Ea'tented Feb. 26, 190?.

Application filed September 29, 1905. i eri'al Nor 280,569.

To all whom, if; may concern.-

Be it known that l, Am'rmnn J. GOBE-IL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Duluth, in the county of St. Louis and State of 5' Minnesota, have invented certain new and useiul improvements in Window Frames and Sashes; and I do'liereby declare the followingto be a lull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the "art to which it appertains to' make and use the same.

My invention relates to window-sash, and has Ior itsobject the provision of a strong, light, and easily-cons ructed sash of bent i5 sheet metal.

it has for a further object the jbrovisionof a removable and adjustable glass-reteinin strip adapted for use with such a sash as part thereof, and which may be adjusted for use 20 with various thicknesses of glass.

7 With these and other. objects in View it consists of the constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and. claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view, partly broken away, of the upper and one'sice rail and rnnllionstrip or an upper sash included in my said in vention. Fig. 2 is a, horizontal section oi a Inullion-strip included in my said invention.

' Fig. 3' is a vertical, section, partly broken away, of the lower rail of an upper sasl1, and

of the upper and lower rails 01 a lower sash,

all included. in my said invention, omitting;

5 the nmllion-strip. l ig. his a ho izontal s'eo tion of my improved side frame for a wind ow,

showing side rails of my window-sashes pcsi tioned therein.

in the clrawii s, i is the cover of the top 4.0 reilo'l the upper sash, which is bent, as l,

i", and i, to l'orrn a groove or channel lor engaging s i10ok-flange 2, iorined on the body portion oi said "upper rail. The upper face or the upper rail is also preferably bent, 5 as at 1, but may, if desired, be constructed llush across the top, as shown by the dotted line. The body portion of the upper rail is bent to form side walls 2, a weather .c-uhler 2, a floor 2, and a strip-receiving groove 2"; As will be observed, the bottom rail oi the lower sashisconstructed approximately the once as the top rail of the upper sash, and he parts are therei'ore designated. by similar reference characters. The lower rail of the upper sash is in most respects constructed the same as the lower rail oi the icnersash, and similar reierence characters are used to designate similar parts; but in'ccnstructing said lone rail oi the upper sash i ,preierahly bend the body portion to aooitionally iorln thereon the snouleer 2. ihe cover: of the bottom rail oi the upper sash is also preierab y inociilied as to its bones, having, )reler ably, only the bonus 1, while the hookfianges oi the lower il oi the uppersash are also preferably moo. ed to inclnoe the bend 2 'ihe coengaging bends or or bets eon the body portion or the various rails their respeotive covers may, honever, be modified in vaious Ways, reanily occurring to any mechanic skilled in art and in JiBW of the forms .l have shown, and I no not, therefore, desire to be limited to the exact forms of bends of these coengaging parts, as shown.

, The upper rail of the lower sash is constructed approximately the same as the lower thereof, except that the cover prel'erably integral with said "cosy portion and the coengagingfb ends and hcolefianges 2 are omitted, the cover being bent ov. roIn one side wall and continued, as at 2 to bend over and engage iip 2 bent outwardly from the opposite side wall and overlapping the shoulder 2 on the lower relief the upper sash. The side rails of both sashes constructed substantially the some as the upper rail ol the upper sas pper an" lower and side rails of each sash, respectively, their enns and coni'iected t 'gether in any convoni manner, by leavin A ejecting ends on he covers of the horizontal rails, which projesti ol the beta eon lUjx g. c ,1! 'l L altering, the angle oi toe tense body portion 5 and the tongue 1 and foe ao ns glass.

i e ten 5 said strip may various thicknesses of the slio'uloer 5 in re prei'eraoly united Lil modifications will readily occur to any one interested in making them and will require no further description.

The mullion-stri of my said sash is a modified form of t e sash-rail, said mullion the shoulders 7 and 7 parallel floors 7 and 7 f, parallel groove-forming bends 7? and 7, '9. central s aeing portion 7, and hook-flanges 7 Sai mullion is adapted toreceive into the grooves formed by its bends 7 and 7 e the tongues of corresponding glass-retaining strips similar to such strips already described herein, and said shoulders are, as in such bends may be rolled or otherwise modified, as suitableand desired. It will also be obvious without further description that any of the walls of'said rails 'or mullionmay be further bent to form ornamental contours without departing from my said invention.

I have found in practice that a convenient- Way of constructing the sashes is to make the body portions of the rails and mullions separately, and then slip their respective covers on longitudinally, and then secure the horizontal rails to the vertical rails, as hereinbefore indicated.

My improved metallic side frame for win dows comprises a sheet-metal front portion 8, bent in one or more places to form recesses, as at 8, adapted to receive the tongues 9 of sash-retaining strips, whichstrips are further provided with angular extensions 9 or 9 and 9", adapted to overlap the flange of the contiguous sash, and not only to form guide and retaining walls for the sash, but toobstruct the passage of an between the sash.

and the window-frame, rendering the window at such place Wind and weather proof;- The space A may be occupied in part by the counterbalance-weight of the sash and the space B by the weight-suspending cords.

(Not shown.) Said side frame also includes, preferably, a back or cover portion 8*, secured to said front portion by any suitable engaging bends, as 9.

in operation the horizontal rails of the re-,

'spective sashes being secured together and the mullion or mullions (if any used) being secured in position by any convenient means, referably by riveting them to the upper and ower rails before the covers of said rails are put on, putty is spread upon or against the shoulders 2*, and the glass or glasses are laid upon or against the putty. 'ihectongues 5* comprising the cover 6 and hook-flanges 6, ody portion having opposite weather-' of the glass-retaining strips 5are then slipped into the tongue-receiving grooves of the rails and mullion, respectively, and the shoulders 5 will then bear against the glass and hold it in position. The upper horizontal,glass,re-

taining strips may be supported upon the up-i )er ends of the vertical glass-retaining strips.

f desired, the tongues of the glass-retaining strips may be secured in the rail-grooveslby a loose angular pin 2 or by any other convenient means. Where only one sheet of glass is used in each sash, the mullion may be omitted.

My window-sashes, as above described, are I particularly desirable on account of their substantially fireproof character.

Having now described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A window-sash having grooves formed in its horizontal and vertical rails, and removable and," adjustable glass-retaining strips provided with tongue portions ada ted to project into said grooves and shoulder portions adapted to bear against the glass.

2. A window-sash constructed of bent sheet metal, each rail of said sash being contoured to form a weathershoulder and a tongue-receiving groove, and removable glass-retaining strips each having a tongue adapted to project intothe groove of the cor responding rail and a shoulder adapted to bear against the glass.

' 3. A window-sashincluding a rail having a body portion constructedof sheet metal bent ,to form a weather-shoulder, a supportinglloor, a tongue-receiving groove, side walls and cover-engaging flanges; and a cover con structed of sheet metal bent at its edges to form hook-llanges adapted to engage the hook-flanges of said body portion.

4. 'In window-sash, a mullion having weather-shoulders formed thereon and having tongue-receiving grooves formed therein, and removable glass-retaining strips each having a tongue adapted to project into the corresponding said groove, and each having a shoulder adapted to bear against the glass.

5. In a window-sash, a mullion constructed of sheet metal and'coniprising a body portion bent to form cover-attaching flanges, weather-shoulders, tongue-engaging grooves and a spacing portion; a cover portion bent to form body-attaching flanges; and removable glassretaining strips having shoulder portions adaptedto bear against the corre spondingly-adjacent glasses, .and having tongue portions adapted to project into the corresponding said grooves.

6. 1n a window-sash'the combination of side and upper and lower rails constructed of sheet nietat bent to form weather-glass-retaining shoulders and tongue-receiving grooves; a plurality of removable glass-re.

taining strips constructed of sheet metal and;

to form opposite weether-siToulders and poxi ellel tongue-receiving grooves; and plurality I assess each bent to forms tongue adapted to enproject into the corresponding groove of said 10.

muliion and to form a shoulder adepted to each embodying a, siiouider adapted to bear beau against the contiguous glass.

against said glass; it mullion comprising a l in testimony whereof I hereunto efiix my body portion oo nstructecLof.sheet motel bent E signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ADELARD J. GOBEIL.

i gage a correspondin one of said grooves and Witnesses JAMES T. WATsoN, Jon-N HEITMANN.

of glass-retaining strips each constructed of sheet metal bent to form a tongue adapted to 

